What I’m Reading: ‘Looper’s Rian Johnson

“I doubt there’s a single person reading this paper who needs me to explain why they should be excited about a new collection of previously uncollected David Foster Wallace essays. His nonfiction is born out of the sort of bitingly perceptive but deeply compassionate humanity our world needs more of, and we should savor every last bit of it he left us.”

In 2005, filmmaker Rian Johnson won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival for “Brick.” The director’s latest feature, “Looper,” opened this year’s Toronto Film Festival and is due out in the U.S. and China on Sept. 28. A time-travel thriller set in a futuristic Shanghai, it stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt and was co-produced by Chinese entertainment company DMG and Endgame Entertainment of Los Angeles.